Definition of "knobkerry" []

• A wooden stick like a club, used in southern Africa. (noun)

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• "First comes the able-bodied though elderly sire carrying a few light throwing-spears and a knobkerry or a gim-crack stabbing-spear, and close behind him are the adult males of his house similarly armed or with a rifle or two supplied by a benevolent Government for protection against the Mullah, to whom these children of nature frequently offer them for sale at very reasonable prices."
• "The native loves a stick, and as he is forbidden to carry either an assegai -- which is a very formidable weapon indeed -- or even a knobkerry, only one degree less dangerous, he consoles himself with a wand or switch in case of coming across"
• "Panda, on the Zululand frontier, growled over his assegai and knobkerry."